How do I generate days from the range of dates in MySQL?

It can be done with the help of following query which uses adddate() function and we are generating the days between ‘2016-12-15’ and ‘2016-12-31’ −

mysql> select * from
    -> (select adddate('1970-01-01',t4*10000 + t3*1000 + t2*100 + t1*10 + t0) gen_date from
    -> (select 0 t0 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t0,
    -> (select 0 t1 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t1,
    -> (select 0 t2 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t2,
    -> (select 0 t3 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t3,
    -> (select 0 t4 union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t4) v
    -> Where gen_date between '2016-12-15' and '2016-12-31'
    -> ;
+------------+
| gen_date   |
+------------+
| 2016-12-15 |
| 2016-12-16 |
| 2016-12-17 |
| 2016-12-18 |
| 2016-12-19 |
| 2016-12-20 |
| 2016-12-21 |
| 2016-12-22 |
| 2016-12-23 |
| 2016-12-24 |
| 2016-12-25 |
| 2016-12-26 |
| 2016-12-27 |
| 2016-12-28 |
| 2016-12-29 |
| 2016-12-30 |
| 2016-12-31 |
+------------+
17 rows in set (0.30 sec)